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OpenAI plans to release Orion, its next AI model, in December this year. It has the potential to be up to 100 times more potent than GPT-4. In contrast to the publication of OpenAI's most recent two models, GPT-4o and o1, claims a report by The Verge. At first, Orion won't be made available to everyone via ChatGPT.

According to the report, which cited sources, the AI startup founded by Sam Altman intends to provide corporations access initially so they may develop their own features and products. Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has not yet responded to the report. Microsoft is "preparing to host Orion on Azure as early as November", the report claims. Microsoft did not respond either.

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"The company's goal is to combine its LLMs over time to create an even more capable model that could eventually be called artificial general intelligence, or AGI," according to the report. Orion's release coincides with OpenAI's reorganisation as a for-profit company, following the company's landmark $6.6 billion investment round at a $157 billion value.

Three senior executives, including Chief Technical Officer Mira Murati, departed the ChatGPT developer last month. Only three of the 13 individuals who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 are still employed by the company. It has been reported that Murati is seeking venture capitalists to fund her own artificial intelligence firm.

Thrive Capital, a prior investor, spearheaded the additional fundraising for OpenAI. The venture capital business contributed about $1.3 billion. SoftBank reportedly contributed $500 million, Nvidia promised $100 million, while Microsoft reportedly contributed slightly less than $1 billion.

"The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems," the business stated in a blog post.

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